Biography of Seth Wheeler
by Millard Fillmore Roberts (Syracuse: M.F. Roberts, 1891)
Seth Wheeler was born in New Ipswich, N. H., May 6, 1774. He lived in the state of Maine about forty miles from Portland. In the year 1819 he came to this town and located on the Joseph Briggs farm on Five Mile Creek. He married Polly Stone, born June 03, 1765. Their children were Seth; Mary; Gratie; Jonas; Luther; Celia; Emily; Elbridge G.; Helen; Harriet and Eliza. Mr. Wheeler died April 7, 1848, and his wife June 13, 1854. Luther married first - Belinda Rosenkrans, by whom he had five children: Helen; Ellijah; Sophronia; John; and Gertrude, who died at the age of sixteen years. His second wife was Elizabeth Waugh. Children: Abram; Linda; Luther jr.; Lettie and Joseph. Emily, daughter of Seth Wheeler, married Hiram Clason. Their children are Wheeler; Adaline and Luther, deceased; Monroe and Elizabeth.
Page 575A school was taught at an early day in the Gratten Wheeler district by Gratie, daughter of Seth Wheeler. This school was held in a blacksmith shop while the log school house was building.